SocialCrawl is a unified social media scraping API that provides access to 65 platforms through a single authentication token and standardized data schema. The platform enables developers and AI agents to extract structured social data—including profiles, posts, reels, and engagement metrics—without building and maintaining platform-specific integrations. Its Prism feature consolidates multiple API calls into a single request, reducing complexity and cost for high-volume data collection.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Developers building social media monitoring, market research, or AI training applications face significant friction when integrating with multiple social platforms. Each network requires its own API key, authentication flow, data schema, and rate-limit handling, forcing teams to write and maintain large amounts of platform-specific glue code. This fragmentation increases development time, raises infrastructure costs, and makes it difficult to scale data collection across platforms.
Solution
SocialCrawl provides a unified social media scraping API that consolidates access to 65 platforms behind a single authentication token and a consistent, unified data schema. Developers make one API call to retrieve structured data—such as author information, engagement metrics, and metadata—in the same response shape across every supported network, eliminating the need for per-platform integrations. The platform includes a universal search feature that allows one query to search across all platforms simultaneously, and its Prism capability reduces up to ten API calls into a single request for common workflows like fetching Instagram Reels stats with views, likes, comments, and shares. SocialCrawl also offers an AI assistant that answers questions about endpoints and pricing, generating copy-paste code snippets that run on the user's own API key.
Target Audience
Primary customers are software developers, data engineers, and AI teams building social media monitoring tools, market research platforms, or training datasets that require reliable, multi-platform social data at scale.
Features
- Unified API covering 65 social platforms with one auth token and one consistent response schema across all 580+ endpoints
- Prism feature that consolidates up to ten API calls into a single request, reducing latency and credit consumption
- Built-in universal search that queries across every platform with one request, returning results in a standardized format
- `include=stats` parameter on profile and reels endpoints that returns full engagement data (views, likes, comments, shares, saves, reposts) in a single call
- AI-powered developer assistant that provides endpoint documentation, pricing guidance, and generates ready-to-run code snippets
- Credit-based pricing model with never-expiring credit packs, no per-seat fees, and no separate credentials to rotate per platform